Harvey’s Tales Books and Other Diversions in downtown Geneva will rejoice its fifth anniversary with things to do and prizes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday.
Entrepreneurs Chuck and Roxanne Osborne opened the shop at 216 James St. on Oct. 1, 2018. They named the retailer following their beloved Bernese mountain dog, Harvey, who handed away the year prior to.
“The initially individual who purchases 5 guides will get a prize,” Chuck Osborne mentioned of Saturday’s celebration. “The to start with client sporting a Harvey’s Tales T-shirt will get a prize. We are going to have 5-year anniversary shirts and baggage of anniversary mix espresso for sale.”
Maintaining with the topic of 5 for its five yrs in organization will be hourly doorway prizes on the 5 of every hour and spin-the-wheel prizes.
“The spin-the-wheel gives bargains on buys, no cost publications, arts and galleys prereleased from publishers, tote bags,” Chuck Osborne said. “Publishers arrived via for us with guides and journals, things for young ones like stickers.”
The fifth-anniversary celebration will also aspect an location where by youngsters can generate the “Quite Hungry Caterpillar.”
Kristen Cornelio, Harvey’s Tales social media coordinator, explained the enterprise ordered additional than 79,000 publications in the final 5 decades and hosted 68 nearby authors.
“The e book club satisfies each and every other thirty day period, and they examine 24 textbooks,” Cornelio mentioned. “They have awarded $6,000 complete in scholarships to 10 Geneva High College seniors — two a year for five several years.”
And the shop survived the COVID-19 pandemic by placing up own periods for shopping and providing touch-free of charge porch pickup, Cornelio reported.
“They have gotten two other pet dogs considering the fact that Harvey — Hazel and Howard — both of those Bernese mountain dogs,” Cornelio stated. “They named the kid’s space after Hazel. They offer plush minor puppies that resemble Hazel and Howard and have sold 547 of them to date.”
